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Family Driven Approaches to Services, Supports, and Research

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Session Number: 09 Room: Salon B

Presentation Type: symposium

Chair: Gary Blau Discussant: Sandra Spencer

Synopsis: Goal 2 of the President's New Freedom Commission calls for a transformation to consumer and family roles within the mental health services system. The Center for Mental Health Services and the Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health are collaborating to define and conceptualize "family driven." This process has been informed by an expert panel, open forum discussions, feedback from stakeholders, and a literature review. This four papers in this symposium will inform participants about the need for change, present and explain the definition, describe family driven approaches to research design, and report on a family driven research project.

Date:
Monday, March 7, 2005

Session Time: 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Conceptualizing Family-Professional Relationships

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Presenting: David Osher; Trina Osher

All Authors for this paper: David Osher; Trina Osher

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: Traditional approaches to service delivery have been professional- and agency-driven. They treat families as passive receivers of services, which are provided by experts, determined by agency needs, and evaluated by agency-defined outcomes. Newer approaches are family-driven, where families are active partners in developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating services and supports. These approaches extend the family focused conceptualizations of the earlier literature on systems of care. Family-driven approaches establish goals in true partnership with families and are grounded in the experiences, expertise, strengths, hopes, dreams, desires, and needs of the individual children, youth, and families that are being served.

Family Driven Care

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Presenting: Gary Blau; Trina Osher

All Authors for this paper: Gary Blau; Trina Osher

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: To promote the transformation of children's mental health care called for by Achieving the Promise, the Center for Mental Health Services commissioned the Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health to develop an operational definition of family driven care. This part of the symposium will present the definition, the method used to develop it, and the literature that supports it. The paper also describes the guiding principles of family driven care and the conditions that exist in a family driven care model.

Synopsis: This part of the symposium will describe the process and content of a collaboration between Keys for Networking, Inc., and the American Institutes for Research to develop an evidence base for family support. Our collaboration has four components. First, together we propose conducting the first experimental assessment of the impact of parent-to-parent support on child and family outcomes. Second, we propose examining the implementation of a process for data-driven decision-making on parents and their advocacy experiences. Third, we have proposed examining dissemination of a parent support model to diverse state contexts. Finally, we offer an example of rigorous family-driven research.